Diplôme d'établissement ex niveau V DBA Doctorate of Business Administration at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam)

Cnam executive-education DBA for experienced managers (typically 10+ years of experience) who carry out practitioner-researcher work on a high-stakes strategic, organisational or managerial issue, leading to a written essay defended before an academic jury of researchers and practitioners.

Department: EPN15 - Stratégies  |  Study mode: part-time (language of instruction: French)  |  Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Year 1 comprises workshops on what management research is, entering the research literature, problematising a research subject, research design, the range of researcher-practitioner methods, and how scientific articles are built, with writing webinars and a first-year progress report. Year 2 deepens qualitative methodologies and leads to the essay.

Career pathways

Senior executives, expert professionals, management consultants, entrepreneurs and trainers/coaches seeking recognised expertise and strategic legitimacy as practitioner-researchers.

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